Review: Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture

Book Review| June 01 2024 Review: Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture Alice Isabella Sullivan and Kyle G. Sweeney, eds. Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture. Boston: Brill, 2023, 484 pp. , 127 color illus. 174 (cloth), ISBN 9789004538436 Lindsay S. Cook Lindsay S. Cook Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 234–236. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 2. 234 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2024; 83 (2): 234–236. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 2. 234 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In a time when the more inclusive label "early modern" has largely come to substitute for the more stylistically determined and Eurocentric "Renaissance, " Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture scrutinizes the new, fine line between late medieval and early modern architecture. Complicating matters is the fact that the key twelfth-century interlocutors Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis and Gervase of Canterbury described early instances of Gothic architecture in the kingdoms of France and England as "modern. "1 Editors Alice Isabella Sullivan and Kyle G. Sweeney emphasize this point in their introduction, and Flaminia Bardati demonstrates through a case study later on that the meaning of the word "modern" has shifted gradually in tandem with changing tastes (171–73). As the volume makes clear, it has, at times, been synonymous with "new, " "contemporary, " or "avant-garde, " and in some cases it seems to have meant something closer to "fresh, " or even "good. " Consisting of twelve. . . You do not currently have access to this content.